Introduction
Junction Double Bill in Association with Forest Fringe
(01223) 511 511 Wed 01 Feb
Our Performance Programme is packed with highlights… Stand-out shows from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Vertigo, The Table, 2401 Objects, Thirsty). Wonderful pieces of storytelling (John Peel’s Shed, What I Heard About The World, The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley). Playful physicality (Where did it all go right? and Gameshow). Exciting collaborations (Forest Fringe Double Bill, Art Crush, Hunt & Darton Café) and scratch ideas looking for your feedback (So Far…, My Robot Heart, Stories from an Invisible Town). Plus at JAM we launch our next Junction Sampled: Festival of Performance (05 & 06 May 2012). Join us at The Junction this Spring and let us know what you think.
2 shows for £10 /£8 con
Made In China: We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?)
Dan Canham: 30 Cecil Street
Time:
Time:
8pm
Duration: 50 mins
Duration: 25 mins
Age:
Age:
12+ / J3
Jess is stuck. Her lifelong friend, Chris, can’t help. The others are out getting wasted. And the world is falling apart. Luckily Jess and Chris have a cooler full of beer, a goofy rapport, a series of dance moves - and a sincere desire to make you, the audience, happy. Or so they claim. Each claims the other’s a liar. That they only met last year. And that they are eyewitnesses to the key world events of the last hundred years. A hilarious and unsettling examination of what it means to be a tuned-in, delusional and unwitting consumer in a hyper-communicative world. Presented as part of BAC Take Out - productions developed at BAC presented nationally and internationally.
Cafe Bar open 1hr before all performances serving fair-trade coffees, teas, soft / alcoholic drinks and snacks. There’s also free Wi-Fi in our foyer. We are family friendly - children’s activities, buggy park and baby change facilities are available at all our family shows. Plus there’s a car park just round the corner.
“ Quirky, funny…surreal and entertaining” The Scotsman
Photo: Will Hanke
9pm 12+ / J2
In 2009 Dan Canham (Kneehigh, DV8, Punchdrunk, Fabulous Beast) made a film in a rotting, dilapidated theatre in Limerick, Ireland. Using that film as source material, this original piece of dance-theatre is an eloquent, heartbreaking elegy for a lost and ruined theatre. A performance of fragments of memories, of wild nights and long-disappeared communities. It evokes the life of a once-mighty building and asks what is left when a theatre closes its doors to the public. See the original film at www.stillhouse.co.uk Made with support from Grants for the Arts through Arts Council England, Escalator Performing Arts, Bristol Ferment and Battersea Arts Centre.
“ Dan Canham raises ghosts in spine tingling dance-theatre piece, 30 Cecil Street… exquisitely c rafted, thoughtful theatre” The Guardian
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